Cody Cochrane

[Cody Cochrane @codycochrane]

@Shane_Templeman @Matt_Bove @WKBW On what planet did the NFL want the Broncos to win over the Bills? And this is coming from someone who wanted the Bills to win

[Forrest Knight @ForrestPKnight]

Honestly, Ben Affleck actually knowing AI and the landscape caught me off guard, but as a writer, makes sense.

Great takes across the board.

[Cody Cochrane @codycochrane]

@chamath Twitter is my favourite app. Basically my newspaper. My “Following” page is a diverse selection of views across spectrums. The “For You” page is a dumpster fire. Saying this app is operating the same or better is so incredibly disingenuous

[Cody Cochrane @codycochrane]

@TheChiefNerd @chamath I never watched Kimmel Live, but it’s pretty disingenuous to quote that more people hate watch your own YouTube without stating that Kimmel’s own YouTube channel has literally millions of views daily

[Cody Cochrane @codycochrane]

@johnrockshomes It’s 2025, ratings have very little to do with late night shows success anymore. Look at their YouTube channels, it’s all about creating clips that are viewed millions of times

[Cody Cochrane @codycochrane]

@Dannyjokes It’s 2025, ratings have very little to do with late night shows success anymore. Look at their YouTube channels, it’s all about creating clips that are viewed millions of times

[Cody Cochrane @codycochrane]

@realEstateTrent Probably not better but Vancouver is definitely up there!

[Cody Cochrane @codycochrane]

@GuntherEagleman @grok @yeaney_janet Hey @grok can you prove that @GuntherEagleman is a male?

[Cody Cochrane @codycochrane]

@GuntherEagleman @grok @yeaney_janet Hey Grok can you prove that @GuntherEagleman is a male?

[Cody Cochrane @codycochrane]

@theallinpod @TuckerCarlson @friedberg I stopped listening to Pod Save America because Outrage Culture was exhausting and I stopped listening to the All In podcast when the amount of gaslighting became insulting

[Cody Cochrane @codycochrane]

@theallinpod @levie @typesfast @friedberg Every week I was excited for the pod because I cared about your opinions. And I cared about them because I didn’t know what they would be. Whether I agreed with them was irrelevant because I still gained value from them

[Cody Cochrane @codycochrane]

@theallinpod @levie @typesfast @friedberg As someone who used to love this pod it’s basically Pod Save America for the Trump Administration. But at least the Pod Save guys are honest in their bias

[Sean Sweeney @seandsweeney]

If you don’t think the solution for the housing crisis is to let the free market build more, I honestly don’t know what to tell you.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This is good, actually. She barely shows up and doesn’t do the reading.

To borrow a phrase I saw elsewhere, it’s like giving someone an unplugged controller.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

A few thoughts from the conversations I’ve been having and hearing over the last week:

The hard question isn’t the 2 points that would’ve decided the election. It’s how to build a Democratic Party that isn’t always 2 points away from losing to Donald Trump — or worse.

The Democratic Party is supposed to represent the working class. If it isn’t doing that, it is failing. That’s true even even if it can still win elections.

Democrats don’t need to build a new informational ecosystem. Dems need to show up in the informational ecosystems that already exist. They need to be natural and enthusiastic participants in these cultures. Harris should’ve gone on Rogan, but the damage here was done over years and wouldn’t have been reversed in one October appearance.

Building a media ecosystem isn’t something you do through nonprofit grants or rich donors (remember Air America?). Joe Rogan and Theo Von aren’t a Koch-funded psy-op. What makes these spaces matter is that they aren’t built on politics. (Democrats already win voters who pay close attention to politics.)

That there’s more affinity between Democrats and the Cheneys than Democrats and the Rogans and Theo Vons of the world says a lot.

Economic populism is not just about making your economic policy more and more redistributive. People care about fairness. They admire success. People have economic identities in addition to material needs.

Trump — and in a different way, Musk — understand the identity side of this. What they share isn’t that they are rich and successful, it’s that they made themselves into the public’s idea of what it means to be rich and successful.

Policy matters, but it has to be real to the candidate. Policy is a way candidates tell voters who they are. But people can tell what politicians really care about and what they’re mouthing because it polls well.

Governing matters. If housing is more affordable, and homelessness far less of a crisis, in Texas and Florida than California and New York, that’s a *huge* problem.

If people are leaving California and New York for Texas and Florida, that’s a *huge* problem.

Democrats need to take seriously how much scarcity harms them. Housing scarcity became a core Trump-Vance argument against immigrants. Too little clean energy becomes the argument for rapidly building out more fossil fuels. A successful liberalism needs to believe in *and deliver* abundance of the things people need most.

That Democrats aren’t trusted on the cost of living harmed them much more than any ad. If Dems want to “Sister Soulja” some part of their coalition, start with the parts that have made it so much more expensive to build and live where Democrats govern.

More than a “Sister Soulja” moment, Democrats need to rebuild a culture of saying no inside their own coalition.

Democrats don’t just have to move right or left. They need to better reflect the texture of worlds they’ve lost touch with and those worlds are complex and contradictory.

The most important question in politics isn’t whether a politician is well liked. It’s whether voters think a politician — or a political coalition — likes them.

[Jared Polis @jaredpolis]

Prosperity and abundance agenda. We have focused on saving people money through three income tax rate reductions (two at the ballot box and one through the leg: 4.63%>4.5%>4.4%>4.25%), cutting property taxes, free preschool and kindergarten for every child, eliminating sales tax on necessities like diapers and feminine hygiene products, and we are in the process of delivering on pro-housing supply solutions, investing in transit and transit-enhanced living opportunities… all while protecting and expanding personal freedom and respect for everyone

[Jack Raines @Jack_Raines]

Moment of truth for this site’s greatest ever parlay.

[Cody Cochrane @codycochrane]

@DetroitOnLion What is stopping a receiver from just snapping the ball to another receiver down field? I don’t get it

[Kharg Island Margaritaville @canderaid]

as a lib the worst part of controlling the hurricanes is you still have to send 95% of them at random caribbean islands or the yucatan or wherever to keep up the ruse that theyre natural. now the tornado machine, you can really go wild on conservatives with that thing

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

Kamala’s menu of potential VPs